Headdress Mask: Buffalo

Headdress Mask: Buffalo

Attribution: Museum-publishedProvenance: Museum accession

Attribution follows a published museum catalogue or peer-reviewed scholarship. Object is held in a public collection under a published accession number.

Headdress Mask: Buffalo, Igbo — front view
Front · Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0 — Cleveland Museum of Art

Catalogued by Cleveland Museum of Art as “Headdress Mask: Buffalo”, dated c. 1910. Harvested from the museum’s open-access record; every field below is copied from that record and none of it has been inferred.

Record

People / cultureBamileke
CountryCameroon
Common nameHeaddress Mask: Buffalo
Form categoryHeaddress or crest worn atop the head
Subject depictedBush cow or buffalo
MaterialsWood and colorant
DimensionsOverall: 55.9 cm (22 in.)

Provenance

Katherine White Reswick

CollectionCleveland Museum of Art
Accession number1972.340

Source

Cleveland Museum of Art, Headdress Mask: Buffalo, accession 1972.340. https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.340

https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.340

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